February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Five

by on February 25, 2015 at 8:26 am
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I was humming Leonard Bernstein’s score all the time as I finished this sketch of West Side Story.

Part of me was wanting to have the Jets and the Sharks walking down the street looking a little bit more menacing, but this is West Side Story and the song and dance is expected just as much as the inevitable tragedy.

I have mixed feelings about just how well West Side Story holds up today. The magnificent score and choreography come off a bit cheesy today clashing with the otherwise realistic setting and perhaps this is me being too much of a fan of The Wire but parts of it feel naive and almost quaint.

Could some one do a good modern version of Romeo and Juliet set in the inner city? Hell yes! and I can’t wait to see it.

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Four

by on February 24, 2015 at 9:55 am
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For today’s sketch I will say one thing in my defense… Pulp Fiction has way to many iconic scenes!

Ultimately I decided to go with the “miracle” scene giving Jules & Vincent a more shocked expression than they did in the movie where at that moment seemed to be more confusion.

Maybe I should have done the Jack Rabbit Slim’s Twist contest.

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Three

by on February 23, 2015 at 9:07 am
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For today’s sketch the little slip of paper told me to draw Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.

This one just came almost fully realized (barring a brief composition snafu) this scene doesn’t actually happen in the movie but this was one of the first films where drawing and image that says what the film is actually about actually worked!

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Two

by on February 22, 2015 at 9:49 pm
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I’m not as big a fan of Clint Eastwood‘s Unforgiven as a lot of my friends are but the last act made up for any problems with it. After his best friend is killed William Munny gives in to his inner demons and wreaks terrible revenge on the town of Big Whisky the most memorable image for me is Clint sitting with the lightning in the background. there like an angel of divine judgement waiting for the Sheriff to come.

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty One

by on February 21, 2015 at 9:22 am
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Well for today’s entry, Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, I figured it was either the scene with the crop-duster or Mt. Rushmore and after a few fruitless experiments with different angles of the crossroad in the middle of nowhere that didn’t look like I was copying the movie poster I decided to go with Mt. Rushmore.

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